3C Community Profile: Humboldt Park
Take a stroll down the Paseo Boricua corridor on Division Street and it’s easy to see why Humboldt Park is one of Chicago’s most vibrant…
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For more than 100 years, The Chicago Community Trust has convened, supported, funded, and accelerated the work of community members and changemakers committed to strengthening the Chicago region. From building up our civic infrastructure to spearheading our response to the Great Recession, the Trust has brought our community together to face pressing challenges and seize our greatest opportunities. Today, that means confronting the racial and ethnic wealth gap.
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Chicago Foundation for Women
In 2017, CFW launched the Englewood Women’s Initiative (EWI), a place-based, community-centered and holistic approach to women’s economic security. Through the EWI, CFW leads, convenes and supports a strategic alliance of agencies who work together to support women in the Englewood community seeking to increase their and their families’ economic security. The overarching 5-year goal is to ensure that at least 60 women achieve a stable income of $40,000 or more per year. It is our broader vision that the EWI serves as a scale-able model for supporting women’s journey to economic security by meeting them where they are and addressing systemic barriers that prevent their achievement.
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University of Chicago Urban Labs
Honoraria for participating in Bridges to Brighter Futures Learning Convenings
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One Million Degrees
Honoraria for participating in Bridges to Brighter Futures Learning Convenings
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SMALL BUSINESS MAJORITY FOUNDATION INC
Small Business Majority will continue our work in the Community Reinvestment Act Coalition and the IL Economic Security Project’s IL Cash Coalition and IL Cost of Living Refund Coalition; we also will support the IL Asset Building Group in restructuring. We share the small business perspective in these coalitions, collaborating on policymaker and public education to promote policies that support equitable entrepreneurship and advance economic justice in low- to moderate-income communities, particularly those with a legacy of disinvestment. We empower entrepreneurs as subject matter experts in these movements and propose to create a new Small Business Equity Council, amplifying the small business voice to build broad support for reforms.
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Interfaith America
One of the most pressing challenges of the vaccination process is the lack of trust for and access to the vaccine among certain subsets of the American population. While Black, Native American, and Latino/a/x communities are particularly ravaged by the pandemic, they are also less likely to trust the vaccine and have disproportionately lower vaccination rates due to a variety of factors, including the prevalence of historical wrongdoings. Chicago faith-based and faith-inspired organizations have considerable social capital to combat these issues on a regional level. IFYC proposes a partnership to equip leaders of these grassroots organizations with the information and skillset needed to serve as effective vaccine advocates and ambassadors.
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Allies for Community Business
Allies for Community Business (A4CB) will provide intensive support for entrepreneurs on Chicago’s South and West Sides to help them grow businesses that create jobs and wealth in their communities.
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Youth Job Center Inc.
Honoraria for participating in Bridges to Brighter Futures Learning Convenings
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The Chicago Community Trust/Community Desk Chicago - Admin
Community Desk Chicago is seeking general operating support to continue to provide technical assistance, coaching and consulting services to nonprofits, nonprofit developers, entrepreneurs and community developers working in communities of color as they attempt to secure the necessary capital for community development projects. General operating support will also allow the Desk to continue to serve as a technical assistance provider for the CNI pre-development fund and lead the Trust's recent efforts to explore the use of REITs and related ownership models as an avenue for supporting community wealth building, neighborhood stabilization and homeownership opportunities.